White Swelling
- Tuberculosis of the boneNote: a contributor to the site wrote "(after
conferring with personnel at Scott and White) that "white swelling:"
should be listed as DVT instead of TB of the bone." DVT means deep
vein thrombosis.

The following helpful information
concerning Mortality Schedules is quoted from The Researcher's Guide to
American Genealogy by Val D. Greenwood.

Beginning with the 1850 census, the
first to enumerate every person in the individual households, the persons in
charge conceived the idea that a certain amount of useful vital (birth,
marriage, death) information could be collected through the census medium.
This was the beginning of mortality schedules. A separate schedule was
thus devised in compliance with an act of Congress. This schedule was for
the purpose of collecting data about persons who had died during the census
year. These mortality censuses exist for the years of 1850, 1860, 1870,
1880 and the limited census of 1885.

In 1918 and 1919 these schedules, with
the exception of those for 1885, were removed from federal custody and each
state was given the option of securing the ones relating to itself. Those
not claimed by the states were given to the National Society of the Daughters of
the American Revolution and were placed in the Society's library in Washington
D.C. Those original schedules held by the DAR are for the states of
Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee and the District of
Columbia. The limited census of 1885 (Colorado, Dakota Territory, Florida,
Nebraska and New Mexico Territory) are in the National Archives except those for
Dakota which are in the library of the North Dakota State Historical Society at
Bismark.

The Texas State Archives in Austin,
Texas has the original Mortality Schedules for Texas for the years of 1850,
1860, 1870, and 1880. Microfilm copies can be found in the Texas State
Library in Austin.